The following report is by Big Think:
Nearly all the research is observational, unable to tease out causation convincingly. Most are plagued by confounding variables. For example, perhaps meat eaters simply eat fewer vegetables, or tend to smoke more, or exercise less? Moreover, many are based on self-reported consumption. The simple fact is that people can’t remember what they eat with any accuracy. And lastly, the reported effect sizes in these scientific papers are often small. Is a supposed 15% greater risk of cancer really worth worrying about?
Study Slams Lazy Research
In a new, unprecedented effort, scientists at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) scrutinized decades of research on red meat consumption and its links to various health outcomes, formulating a new rating system to communicate health risks in the process. Their findings mostly dispel any concerns about eating red meat.
We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease. Moreover, we found no evidence of an association between unprocessed red meat and ischemic stroke or hemorrhagic stroke.
They summarized.
The IHME scientists had been observing the shoddy nature of health science for decades. Each year, hundreds of frankly lazy studies are published that simply attempt to find an observational link between some action — eating a food for example — and a health outcome, like death or disease. In the end, owing to sloppy methods, varying subject populations, and inconsistent statistical measures, everything, especially different foods, seems to be both associated and not associated with cancer. How is the lay public supposed to interpret this mess?
A new system to establish risk
And so, the researchers came up with the burden of proof risk function, a novel statistical method to quantitatively “evaluate and summarize evidence of risk across different risk-outcome pairs.” Using the function, any researcher can evaluate published data for a certain health risk, then, using the function, compute a single number that translates to a one- through five-star rating system.
“A one-star rating indicates that there may be no true association between the behavior or condition and the health outcome. Two stars indicates the behavior or condition is at least associated with a 0-15% change in the likelihood of a health outcome, while three stars indicates at least a 15-50% change, four stars indicates at least a 50-85% change, and five stars indicates a more than 85% change.”
When the IHME utilized this function on red meat consumption and its potential links to various adverse health outcomes, they found that none warranted greater than a two-star rating.
The evidence for a direct vascular or heath risk from eating meat regularly is very low, to the point that there is probably no risk.
There is, however, more evidence for a health risk from eating too few vegetables. That is really the risk of a high-meat diet, those meat calories are displacing vegetable calories.
Commented Dr. Steven Novella, a Yale neurologist and president of the New England Skeptical Society.
The IHME team plans to utilize their burden of proof function on all sorts of health risks, creating a massive, freely accessible database.
In addition to helping consumers, our analysis can guide policymakers in developing health and wellness education programs, so that they focus on the risk factors with the greatest impact on health. Health researchers can also use this analysis to identify areas where current evidence is weak and more definitive studies are needed.
Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou, professor of health metrics sciences at IHME and a lead author of the study, said in a statement.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[33] And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. [34] Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. [35] And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat. Acts 27:33-35
As Big Think points out, most of these studies designed to demonize meat are very shoddy. Many of them are anecdotal, rely on small subject sizes, lacking control groups, scrupulous data collection, and simply have not been thoroughly peer-reviewed; and most of them have clear bias against meats, and are special interest funded by lobbyists, environmentalists groups, and others with an agenda (such as Bill Gates for example).
Moreover, a lot of the studies that do demonize meat and show the potential of certain health risks associated with meats and fat, are conventional feedlot garbage available at your local Walmart. Yes, those steroidal, antibiotic-fed, disease-laden, pesticide-filled meats, especially combined with fillers, nitrates, and preservatives; undoubtably can and will cause all sorts of health issues. Therefore I highly recommend people to avoid the strong majority of meat and dairy sold at your groceries stores.
However, clean meats and dairy that have been properly and sustainably raised are quite healthy for you; and has been eaten for millennium. Do not buy into the vegan propaganda. For every study that exists that demonizes meat, there are just as many demonizing foods that qualify as vegan and the vegan diet itself.
As the old saying goes in the health and fitness realm: “there is a study for everything.”
Truth be told, the mainstream propaganda and carefully selected and cherry-picked studies are only presented to still keep Americans grossly unhealthy.
This is why small, local, traditional farming and husbandry is scorned and forced out of business, and is outright banned in many aspects in many states. This is why the carnivore diet gets a lot of alternative press. It’s another extreme pseudo-science diet designed by the handlers to be the resistance in the paradigm against veganism. This is why some carnivore dieter shills like Joe Rogan – who was the first real puppet to introduce the world to carnivore dieting; and others like Shawn Baker and many others – are suggesting to their audiences to go to McDonalds and strip off all the ingredients and eat only the “meat;” if you can call that pink slime meat! Granted not all carnivore dieters are like that, but that is how ridiculous some of them are.
If you want a good resource on good health, check out the Weston A. Price Foundation for more info.
Alas, the vegan propaganda will not stop. After all, the health “experts” in the government want you to believe M&M’s and Lucky Charms are healthier than ground beef and eggs with butter!
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: [5] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 1 Timothy 4:1-5
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I love meat, though I’m more of a chicken person which is ALSO meat as well as fish!
Plants and bugs, NO THANKS NO WAY!!!
Yeah the only bugs I’m eating are the ones my chickens eat and then I eat their eggs. Or the bugs that polinate my vegetables and fruits I grow, but I don’t eat them, just grateful for them. Plants are good for you, even Jesus ate grain foraging on the Sabaath; the Pharisees lost it over that, lol. Balance in diet, just like balance in the fruits and the gifts, it takes all to make whole.
been watching Paul Saladino on youtube (meat, fruit, and raw dairy – he says)
In honour of this article we should all have a bbq this weekend with all our friends and families or just ourselves.
I gotta a suspicious feeling the cannibalist are pushing these vegan diets.
I think you are right, Magnolia. Solyent Green, The Road, the Hunger Games, and all the Zombie flicks/TV shows/gaming, come to mind as to their wicked sick perversions and Satanism. What I don’t understand is the compliance with people in the industries, like engineers who think it’s ‘great’ to 3D print ‘meat’, come on, really? I’d be like I’ll 3D print a prosthesis for someone or a house for the homeless, but not fake meat.